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Do you know of anything else that would help mid-level / senior software and platform engineers ride the wave ?
* Transmission engineering - reverse engineering, extending, and creating transmission schemes.
* Test automation - Automate the shit out of your applications and job with home grown test automation capabilities (not some big third party test automation tool)
* Performance - Actually measure things with actual numbers to show employers just how shitty/awesome their applications are with actual evidence.
* Knowing your software platform at the lowest level, not some vanity or unnecessary abstraction bullshit
* Knowing people. If you are bad at the soft skills, or are too neurodivergent to actively listen, AI probably should take your job.
Just keep getting better at programming, and have a deeper understanding of a topic like how a computer works low level. That takes time, focus and effort but it will be worth it. It's knowlodge that will remain, who knows MCP how long will be there? Also, even if we reach 99% of the code generated by machines(and I don't believe it if not for trivial code) you'd still need deeper skills to understand it, not only se…
Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate) and building RAG systems. Tons of companies need this now and most devs don't know it yet.
Understanding model fine-tuning and when it's worth it vs just better prompting. Also get comfortable with AI ops - monitoring model performance, dealing with hallucinations, cost optimization. The boring stuff that actually matters in production.
And yeah, just stay curious and adaptive. Half the tools we use today didn't exist 18 months ago.
Just keep getting better at programming, and have a deeper understanding of a topic like how a computer works low level. That takes time, focus and effort but it will be worth it. It's knowlodge that will remain, who knows MCP how long will be there? Also, even if we reach 99% of the code generated by machines(and I don't believe it if not for trivial code) you'd still need deeper skills to understand it, not only se…
Just keep getting better at programming, and have a deeper understanding of a topic like how a computer works low level. That takes time, focus and effort but it will be worth it. It's knowlodge that will remain, who knows MCP how long will be there? Also, even if we reach 99% of the code generated by machines(and I don't believe it if not for trivial code) you'd still need deeper skills to understand it, not only se…
Do you think that learn C can me a point? It can be very helpful to understand how systems work at low level
A few things will stick:
- A rather large network of people who know who I am and what I do
- A rather large and benevolent audience
- A deeper understanding of things that are not written down, and definitely not part of AI training data
- A brain, eyes and a body that operate in the real world. AI only sees what we feed it.
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Do you think that learn C can me a point? It can be very helpful to understand how systems work at low level
I don't think so. A shallow experience in C (less than 10/15 years of experience) will not add much to your career. It is very difficult to get a job where understanding how systems work at low level will be needed nowadays that most of the resources are spent on a few layers above.